Press-Enterprise to charge for unlimited access to digital news to help support local journalism

By Frank Pine | [email protected] | Daily News PUBLISHED: May 3, 2018 at 3:28 pm | UPDATED: May 8, 2018 at 10:26 am Beginning this week, this news organization will no longer be giving its work away online. Print readers have always paid for the news, though to be fair, the price of a subscription often doesn’t cover even the cost of newsprint and delivery. The truth is, news gathering has traditionally been funded by advertising, but in these days of declining print advertising, those print dollars just don’t go far enough, and online advertising just isn’t making up the difference. Real news gathering – the kind done by professional journalists who put their names on their work and who are accountable for its accuracy, fairness and balance – is not cheap. So this week, we’re launching a digital subscription program, asking those who read our news to support local journalism by subscribing. Related: Questions and answers about the subscription program The first four weeks is only 99 cents. After that, we’re asking $10 every four weeks. That’s about what you probably pay for any one of a number of streaming video services. And we’re worth it. We bring you the news, and more importantly, the news that’s relevant to you because it’s near you. Local news. Our journalists are real people who live in the communities we cover, who go to the places we write about, and who know the issues they cover. We’re real people, and we do… [Read full story]